1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate. Mulled wine is also very good.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Wraps them
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Colored
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No
5. When do you put your decorations up?
Somewhere between 2 weeks to a week and half before Christmas
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Turkey and the two kinds of stuffing that come with it, (ground suasage inside the bird, stovetop stuffing on the side)
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
Getting a GT sled in 1990, man I loved that thing
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Age 7, figured it out when I noticed Santa and my dad had the same handwriting. Even though I told my parents I figured it out and didn't believe anymore he still proceded to label presents to me as being from Santa for the next year or two
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Not really, I do get a fresh pair of pajamas nearly every year and the last few years I've been making a small little stocking (a dollar store gift bag) filled with stuff to hold me over
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
Family all does it together, we have a big container of ornamemnts we get out every year. It's a pain in the ass to lug it up two flights of stairs but worth it for how good it makes the tree look
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Snow I love, it's the freezing cold weather and ice and slush I'm not down with
12. Can you ice skate?
No, I can ski though
13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Yes, the already mentiond GT sled and the four DVD sets of Home Movies. Never had to pay for one, my sister and friends gave them to me as gifts.
14. What's the most important thing about the holiday's for you?
Being with people I care about and celebrating the end of the year
15. What's your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Nanaimo bars
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Watching Christmas movies and specials
17. What tops your tree Star or angel?
A star
18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
As a kid recieving, nowadays it's giving and enjoying the reactions of the recipient. I also always really look forward to boxing day cause alot of people are bad at figuring out what I'm into, and there's usually nice coupons and cheques to spend
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
For traditional I like Leroy Anderson's "A Christmas Festival" it's an 8 and half minute medley of various carols and can get actually get pretty rockin' and intense when prefromed well, The Boston Pops always have the best versions, for modern I have a mixed cd I made I listen to with alot of my favorite artists doing Christmas stuff, everything from members of Yes to James Brown, Kate Bush, the Ramones... 25 cuts in all.
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Some are good, some are bad. I like the standard ones, and the cherry and buttscotch ones. The other flavoured ones they make, like the blue ones and the pop flavoured ones are crap imo
21. Do you like fruitcake? Would you give it to someone as a gift?
It depends, if it's soaked in booze for a long time it can be good, other than that I can take or leave it. I've had a variation on fruit cake a couple of times I liked much better called Bishop's bread. It's like a cake/ loaf thing, with just red cherries and bits of chocolate and nothing else
22. How long will you keep up your Christmas decorations?
They come down within the first week of January
23. If you could have a reindeer as a pet, which one would you have?
Rudolph, he could help keep electricity bills down
24. Do you stay up to see if maybe you'd hear sleigh bells?
Not applicable anymore but as a kid I did. Even after I stopped being into the Stanta thing, there were still bells I listened for. The stockings my sister and I had as kids had bells attached to them so I listened for those. Also some times my dad would get into the spirit when I was young and still believed in santa and walk a couple of times past my door ringing a set of hand bells or borrow my sister's tamborine
25. Are you one of the people always wearing a santa hat?
Not usually but occasionaly